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In this paper, we propose novel learning frameworks to tackle optimal control problems by applying the Pontryagin maximum principle and then solving for a Hamiltonian dynamical system. Applying the Pontryagin maximum principle to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-13 Chandrajit Bajaj , Minh Nguyen

We present a neural network approach for approximating the value function of high-dimensional stochastic control problems. Our training process simultaneously updates our value function estimate and identifies the part of the state space…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-08 Xingjian Li , Deepanshu Verma , Lars Ruthotto

We propose a neural network approach that yields approximate solutions for high-dimensional optimal control problems and demonstrate its effectiveness using examples from multi-agent path finding. Our approach yields controls in a feedback…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-29 Derek Onken , Levon Nurbekyan , Xingjian Li , Samy Wu Fung , Stanley Osher , Lars Ruthotto

Reliable high-fidelity quantum state transformation has always been considered as an inseparable part of quantum information processing. In this regard, Pontryagin maximum principle has proved to play an important role to achieve the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-21 Nahid Binandeh Dehaghani , A. Pedro Aguiar

In this article we derive a Pontryagin maximum principle (PMP) for discrete-time optimal control problems on matrix Lie groups. The PMP provides first order necessary conditions for optimality; these necessary conditions typically yield two…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Karmvir Singh Phogat , Debasish Chatterjee , Ravi Banavar

This paper focuses on optimal control problem for a class of discrete-time nonlinear systems. In practical applications, computation time is a crucial consideration when solving nonlinear optimal control problems, especially under real-time…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Chuanzhi Lv , Xunmin Yin , Hongdan Li , Huanshui Zhang

We propose a novel unsupervised learning framework for solving nonlinear optimal control problems (OCPs) with input constraints in real-time. In this framework, a neural network (NN) learns to predict the optimal co-state trajectory that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-17 Lihan Lian , Yuxin Tong , Uduak Inyang-Udoh

We propose a neural network approach for solving high-dimensional optimal control problems. In particular, we focus on multi-agent control problems with obstacle and collision avoidance. These problems immediately become high-dimensional,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-05 Derek Onken , Levon Nurbekyan , Xingjian Li , Samy Wu Fung , Stanley Osher , Lars Ruthotto

In this work, we investigate an indirect approach for the numerical solution of optimal control problems via neural networks. A customized neural network is constructed, where optimal state, co-state and control trajectories are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-13 Mominul Rubel , Gabriel Nicolosi

The continuous dynamical system approach to deep learning is explored in order to devise alternative frameworks for training algorithms. Training is recast as a control problem and this allows us to formulate necessary optimality conditions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Qianxiao Li , Long Chen , Cheng Tai , Weinan E

We discuss a mathematical framework for analysis of optimal control problems on infinite-dimensional manifolds. Such problems arise in study of optimization for partial differential equations with some symmetry. It is shown that some…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-05-19 Robert J. Kipka , Yuri S. Ledyaev

Model predictive control offers a powerful framework for managing constrained systems, but its repeated online optimization can become computationally prohibitive. Multiparametric programming addresses this challenge by precomputing optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Lida Lamakani , Efstratios N. Pistikopoulos

In this study, we address a control-constrained optimal control problem pertaining to the transformation of quantum states. Our objective is to navigate a quantum system from an initial state to a desired target state while adhering to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-11 Nahid Binandeh Dehaghani , A. Pedro Aguiar

This article considers a discrete-time robust optimal control problem on matrix Lie groups. The underlying system is assumed to be perturbed by exogenous unmeasured bounded disturbances, and the control problem is posed as a min-max optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-28 Anant A. Joshi , Debasish Chatterjee , Ravi N. Banavar

We introduce the MAGICARP algorithm, a numerical optimization method for quantum optimal control problems that combines the structure provided by Pontryagin's Maximum Principle (PMP) and the robustness of gradient ascent techniques, such as…

In this paper, we propose a method to solve nonlinear optimal control problems (OCPs) with constrained control input in real-time using neural networks (NNs). We introduce what we have termed co-state Neural Network (CoNN) that learns the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-04 Lihan Lian , Uduak Inyang-Udoh

The paper addresses an optimal ensemble control problem for nonlocal continuity equations on the space of probability measures. We admit the general nonlinear cost functional, and an option to directly control the nonlocal terms of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-09 Roman Chertovskih , Nikolay Pogodaev , Maxim Staritsyn

In this work, we propose and study a new approach to formulate the optimal control problem of second-order differential equations, with a particular interest in those derived from force-controlled Lagrangian systems. The formulation results…

We study the time-optimal robust control of a two-level quantum system subjected to field inhomogeneities. We apply the Pontryagin Maximum Principle and we introduce a reduced space onto which the optimal dynamics is projected down. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 O. Fresse-Colson , S. Guérin , Xi Chen , D. Sugny

In this short communication, we first recall a version of the Pontryagin maximum principle for general finite-dimensional nonlinear optimal sampled-data control problems. This result was recently obtained in [L. Bourdin and E. Tr{\'e}lat ,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-12-16 Loïc Bourdin , Emmanuel Trélat
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